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Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI
(www.cbsnews.com)
I thought they broke up
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2025
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And all the pentagons info is compromised…
that would be hilarious
Not really, too many lives at stake.
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Dude you can just fucking download open LLM models suited for particular tasks and get a semi competent team of programmers/IT/engineers to do whatever Grok does much better for a minute fraction of that cost. Talk about the department of government inefficiency.
They want to use mecha hitler without having to build mecha hitler
They went and built the torment nexus...
They can't not use it!
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Dept of Grift Engineering
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Sure. Why not put mechahitler in charge? May as fucking well.
No, no - It's because it's mechahitler that this contract is now in place.
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oh no are you telling me that the breakup between fascist A and fascist B was just play theater?! who could have ever seen that coming omg.... what a surprise this world is
Living outside the US I'm not sure if I should be glad or terrified by the Pentagon's incompetence in these worrying times. Maybe I'm... I don't know, 20% glad and 80% terrified? Sounds about right.
What incompetence? It's just the usual corruption. It's 90% of what Pentagon does.
Were it 90% of what Pentagon did, the rest of the world bar China and India would be US territories.
Being corrupt does not get you territories. I just makes you waste money on never ending conflicts so that private contractors can get richer.
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Why would you be glad?
Incompetent Pentagon means they‘ll hopefully cause less destruction in the world but I‘m not sure that they will when working under mecha Hitler word salad.
It’s even worse when you remember the news from just the other day that grok is looking at elon’s tweets to determine it’s opinion on topics
That's why the news that Grok is racist is true. The US government will be even more systematically racist now.
I wonder if they’ll make it operational on August 29th
It becomes operational August 4 and self-aware on the 29th.
I've seen this movie.
"The only way to keep things from crashing is to plug ~~Skynet~~ Grok in."
I think it's hilarious that you think that a multimillion dollar over engineered autocorrect is gonna somehow become sentient and destroy the world. It can't even do math correctly. 😂
Wait til you learn about MCP and how much better it has gotten in the last 3 months
For a certain very specific usage of the word "better"
~~Grok~~ Mechahitler.
The UN should consider nuking this.. this … whatever it is that is left of the USA to Kingdom Come.
I identify strongly with the frustration in this sentiment.
But you do realise the US is the foremost nuclear power in the world? Right?
That's why the world should have done anything and everything possible to keep US from falling into fascist hands. But now it's too late.
Yes, I know. Unfortunately, rest of the world is not doing that much better.
What the fuck guys, who wished for 'real life tony stark, lol' on the cursed monkey paw!?!? GUYS?!?!
There's the grift.
The new offering includes custom national security tools, AI-powered science and health applications, and cleared engineering support for classified environments.
What happens in the SCIF stays in the…oh fuck it, never mind - send it to the cloud for processing. What could go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
They’re going to get someone killed
I don't think so. I think they'll either use it for very benign tasks or they'll get a LOT of people killed.
Ellen really wants to be a super villian.
I do not welcome our robot overlords.
"We are gonna use MechaHitler for good we promise"
Haven't people seen Johnny English 3 :P